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Finding Aid

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains the papers and musical works of renowned University of Iowa composer, conductor and musician William Hibbard. Series I of the collection - the largest portion - consists of musical scores and related materials (such as drafts and notes) for most of Hibbard's oeuvre. Many of the scores are original manuscripts, but also included are edited photocopies, performance copies, bound and published versions.  Some scores are full, while others are parts for individual instruments.

Series II consists of Hibbard's personal papers; included are correspondence, programs and reviews, handwritten jottings from Hibbard on a number of different musical concepts and patterns, and class materials, that is, materials relating to classes taught by Hibbard at the University of Iowa. [Class Materials is distinct from Classwork, which refers to materials drawn from Hibbard's own student life.]

Series III is comprised entirely of audio recordings: 5, 7, and 10-inch reels. These tapes are recordings of Hibbard's own compositions [many performed by Hibbard himself], of performances by Hibbard of the works of other composers, and of other musical performances not by or from Hibbard. Also included in this series is a professionally produced compact disc from 1991, In Memoriam William Hibbard, which brings together a number of Hibbard's compositions.

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Biographical Note

William Alden Hibbard was a prominent composer, musician, and music professor at the University of Iowa. Born on August 8, 1939, in Newton, Massachusetts, he displayed an early aptitude for music - while still in junior high school, Hibbard began taking music composition lessons from Francis Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory of Music. He went on to attend the Conservatory as an undergraduate, and was graduated with a B.M. with Highest Honors in Violin in 1961. He obtained his Masters, in Composition, from the Conservatory in 1963.

Hibbard arrived at the University of Iowa in 1964 as a doctoral student in Composition; he received his PhD from the School of Music in 1967. He joined the School of Music faculty, Composition and Theory section, in 1966. He was made a full professor in 1977, and was appointed head of the section in 1987.

During his tenure at UI, the focus of Hibbard's activity - both as a performer and as a composer - was the Center for New Music, UI's professional new music ensemble which Hibbard co-founded (together with Richard Hervig, then head of Composition and Theory) in 1966. The Center was created through joint funding from UI and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and was the first program west of the Mississippi devoted to the performance of new music. Hibbard served as the Center's Music Director from 1966 until 1988. Hibbard summed up the mission of the Center by saying, "We exist to serve composition through performance. It's that simple." During Hibbard's tenure at the Center, its members performed more than 200 concerts, made numerous tours of Iowa and the Midwest, and attended national music festivals. The Center attained a national reputation, and in 1986 won the Commendation of Excellence from Broadcast Music, Inc. (only the second ensemble to win the award). The American Composers Alliance awarded the Center its Laurel Leaf Award "in memoriam William Hibbard" in 1990.

Hibbard also served as the Director of UI's Center for New Performing Arts, an interdisciplinary arts project funded, like the CNM, jointly by UI and the Rockefeller Foundation.  He served in this position from 1969-1976.

As a performer, Hibbard was Principal Violist of the Quad City Symphony (James Dixon, Music Director) .from 1984-1988. He was also the founding Director of the Iowa City Community String Orchestra, which he directed from 1980-1986. As a composer, he wrote more than 40 different works, for orchestra, for chamber/ensemble, for solo instruments, and for voice. His awards and honors were numerous, including the G.W. Chadwick Medal from the New England Conservatory of Music (1961), the UI Philip Greeley Clapp Award (1967), the American Film Institute Prize for Girl On A Landscape (1968), and the New England Conservatory's Distinguished Alumnus Award (1988). Hibbard's 1974 composition Menage for Soprano, Trumpet and Violin was selected as one of five American works to be submitted for the 1977 International Society of Contemporary Music Festival in Bonn, Germany.

William Hibbard died of AIDS in San Francisco, California, at the age of 49 on April 5, 1989.

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Related Materials

Records of the Center for New Performing Arts, 1970-1978. (RG 06.24.04)

Records of the School of Music, 1907-; bulk 1940-1975. (RG 06.24.01)

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Box Contents List

Series I:  Musical Scores

Box 1

Orchestra/Large Ensemble

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1977)

First Version (Bound, 2 copies)

Full Score (Bound, 2 copies)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Photocopy, 2 copies)

Partial Score (Manuscript with revisions)

First Version (Manuscript)

Box 2

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1977) [continued]

Parts for: Harp/Piano/Vibraphone/Marimba/Percussion

                  Strings

                  Viola Sola

                  Woodwinds and Brass

Individual Pieces, Phrases and Chords, 1975-1977

Notes, 1976-1977

Consorts for Winds, Brass and Percussion (1984)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Parts for Brass, Percussion and Piano (Manuscript)

Box 3

Consorts for Winds, Brass and Percussion (1984) [continued]

Parts for Woodwinds (Manuscript)

Full Score (Bound, 2 copies – 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Photocopy, 2 copies)

Parts for Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion and Piano (Photocopy)

Individual Pieces, Phrases and Chords (1984)

Notes, 1984

Notes and Playing Instructions, 1985

Box 4

Four Pieces for Chamber Ensemble (1962)

Full Score

Full Score (1970 Revision – Bound, 3 copies, 2 with handwritten notations)

Parts for Instruments (1970 Revision) [Percussion, Bass, Trombone, Horn, Flute, Clarinet, Violin – 2 copies of each]

“Sensuous Extractions” (3 copies, 2 with handwritten notations)

Box 5

Processionals for Orchestra (1981)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Parts for Brass (Manuscript)

Parts for Strings (Manuscript)

Parts for Woodwinds (Manuscript)

Individual Pieces, Phrases and Chords (1980)

First Version (Bound, 5 copies)

Full Score (Photocopy)

Parts for Orchestra (Photocopy)

Box 6

Processionals for Orchestra (1981) [continued]

Parts for Orchestra (Photocopy with handwritten notations – 2 copies)

First Version (Photocopy with handwritten notations)

Box 7

Reliefs for Orchestra (1962)

Parts for Orchestra [Oboe, English Horn, Bassoon, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Flute, Clarinet, ‘A’ Violins, ‘A’ Celli, ‘A’, Bassi] (Onion sheets)

Parts for Orchestra [Harp, Piano, ‘C’ Violins, ‘C’ Celli, ‘C’ Bassi] (Onion sheets)

Parts for Orchestra [‘B’ Violas, Tuba, Percussion, Timpani] (Onion sheets)

Sketches and Notes

Sinfonia on Expanding Matrices (1983)

Full Score (Bound)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Parts for Orchestra (Manuscript)

Draft Pages, with handwritten notations

Individual Pieces, Phrases and Chords (1983)

Full Score (Photocopy, 2 copies)

Part for First Violin (Photocopy with handwritten notations – 7 copies)

Part for Second Violin (Photocopy with handwritten notations – 5 copies)

Parts for Viola (3 copies), Cello (4 copies), and Bass (1 copy) (All photocopies with handwritten notations)

Box 8

Stabiles for Thirteen Instruments (1968)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Parts for Instruments (Double Bass, Viola, Violin, Trombone, Trumpet, Bass Clarinet, Clarinet, Alto Flute, Flute, Harp, Piano, Vibraphone, Cello) (Draft Pages)

Parts for Instruments (Cello, Vibraphone, Harp, Piano, Flute, Alto Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Double Bass) (Final copy?)

Full Score (Bound Photocopy, 2 copies)

Full Score and Parts for Instruments (Photocopy)

Notes

Chamber/Small Ensemble

Box 9

Arioso and Fugue for Viola and Piano (1960)

Manuscript drafts

Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet and Harp (1973)

Full Score (2 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (with edits and inserts)

Full Score (Published version, 2 copies)

‘Old Score’

Conductor’s Score (with handwritten notations)

Part for Trombone (with handwritten notations)

Part for Trombone (Old Score, with handwritten notations)

Individual Pieces, Phrases and Chords, and Sketches and Notes

Duo for Clarinet and Vibraphone (1987)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Photocopy, 2 copies)

Full Score (Master Photocopy, 1 additional photocopy)

Full Score (Proofing Master)

Box 10

Fantasy for Organ, Trumpet, Trombone and Percussion (1965)

Full Score (2 copies, onion sheets)

Parts for Instruments (Trumpet/Trombone – 2 copies; Percussion – 1 copy) (Onion sheets)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Bound, 3 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Parts for Trumpet/Trombone (Bound, 4 copies with handwritten notations)

Part for Percussion (Bound, 4 copies – 3 with handwritten notations)

Sketches and Notes

Gestures for Flute, Double Bass, Marimba and Percussion (1963, revised 1969)

Full Score with handwritten notations (onion sheets)

Full Score (5 copies with handwritten notations)

Part for Percussion II (Copy)

Full Score (1969 Revision – 3 copies with handwritten notations)

Full Score (1969 Revision – Bound, 2 copies with handwritten notations)

 

Sketches and Notes

Box 11

Intersections I, II for Woodwinds (1966)

Full Score (onion sheets)

Parts for Instruments – Part I (onion sheets)

Full Score (Bound with handwritten notations)

Full Score, Parts I and III (Bound with handwritten notations)

Full Score, Part III (Bound with handwritten notations)

Part for Bassoon – Part I with handwritten notations

Part for Bassoon – Part III (Bound)

Part for Clarinet – Parts I and III (2 copies each, with handwritten notations)

Part for Flute – Parts I and III (1 copy of Part I, 2 copies of Part III, all with handwritten notations)

Part for Horn – Parts I and III with handwritten notations

Part for Oboe – Part I with handwritten notations

Part for Marimba – Parts I and III (Pasted Mockup)

Part for Percussion II – Parts I and III (Pasted Mockup)

Part for Percussion III – Parts I and III (Pasted Mockup)

Part for Percussion V – Parts I and III (Pasted Mockup)

Part for Vibraphone – Parts I and III (Pasted Mockup)

Sketches and Notes

Box 12

One Round…And Another One (1979)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (3 photocopies, 2 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Bound – 2 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score of “One Round” only (2 photocopies with handwritten notations)

Full Score- First Version (Photocopy)

Full Score – First Version (Bound)

Notes, 1977-1979

Sketches and Notes (1978-1979)

P/M Variations for 2 Double Basses (1975, revised 1982)

Full Score (4 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Sketches and Notes

Box 13

P/M Variations, Revisited for 4 Double Basses (1982)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (3 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Sketches and Revisions

Portraits for Flute and Piano (1964)

Full Score (Manuscript – 2 copies, one in onion sheet)

Revisions

Full Score (Published Version – 3 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Bound – 3 copies, 1 signed by Hibbard; 1 with handwritten notations)

Part for Flute (Published Version – 2 copies)

Sonata for Violin/Viola and Piano (1956)

Notebook draft

Sonatina for Violin and Piano (n.d.)

Full Score (Manuscript)

String Quartet (1971)

Full Score (Bound proofing copies – 6 copies with handwritten notations) [2 folders of 3 copies each]

Full Score (Photocopies – 2 copies)

Full Score (Published Version – 2 copies)

Notes, 1971?

Program for Performance by Stradivari Quartet at Center for New Music, UI, November 1972 (2 copies)

Box 14

String Trio (1964)

Manuscript Notebook

Full Score (First Version, onion sheets)

Full Score (Published Version, 2 copies – 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Unbound, 2 copies with handwritten notations and attached revisions)

Full Score (Unbound, 3 copies – 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Bound, 4 copies)

Notes and Thoughts, n.d.

Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Guitar (1959)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Manuscript, onion sheets)

Full Score (Work Score with revision notes)

Full Score (Photocopy, 2 copies)

Parts for Instruments (Manuscript)

Variations for Brass Nonet (1960)

Full Score (‘Old Version’, onion sheets)

Full Score (Manuscript notebooks)

Box 15

Variations for Brass Nonet (1960)

Full Score (Photocopy, 3 copies)

Full Score (Photocopy with handwritten notations)

Untitled Works

Untitled Composition for Eleven Players (early form of Intersections I, II?) (1965, n.d.)

Manuscript notes and revisions

Untitled Piece for Two Pianos and Vibraphone (1979?)

Notes, 1977-1979

Untitled Vibraphone/Marimba Piece (1981)

Notes

Solo Instrument

Caprice for Unaccompanied Viola (1979)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Photocopy, 3 copies)

Full Score (Bound Photocopy, 2 copies – 1 with handwritten notations)

Chromatic Invention (a 3 voci) for Organ (1957)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Manuscript and notes)

Box 16

Handwork for Piano (1986)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Photocopy, 2 working copies)

Full Score (Photocopy, May 1986 revisions)

Full Score (Printed copy, 3 copies)

Full Score (Bound, 3 copies)

Full Score (Bound – Hibbard’s copy with handwritten notations)

Full Score (First Version, Photocopy – 2 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Outdated Pages Since Revision

Partial Score (Loose Pages, Photocopy)

Handwritten Notes

Print Master

Printing Proofs

Reprinting Materials

Invention on Two Notes for Solo Viola (n.d.)

Full Score (Manuscript, and Photocopy with handwritten notations)

Box 17

Parson’s Piece for Solo Percussion (1968, revised 1974)

Full Score (Final Copy, 4 copies)

Full Score (Printed Copy, 4 copies – 1 with handwritten notations)

Partial Score (Onion sheets, and photocopy)

Mimeographed Pages (for proofing?), some with handwritten notations

Reflexa III for Solo Viola (1973)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Photocopy – 5 copies, and Copy Master)

Schickstuck for Vibraphone (1981)

Full Score (Pencil Draft)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Master Photocopy)

Full Score (4 copies)

Full Score (Bound – 2 copies with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Bound – Hibbard’s copy with handwritten annotations/corrections made after Steve Schick’s March 1981 performance)

Variations for Violoncello Solo (1969)

Full Score (Manuscript – onion sheets)

Full Score (Photocopy – 2 copies with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Photocopy – 5 copies)

Full Score (Printed Copy – 3 copies, 1 signed by Hibbard)

Untitled Works

Untitled Viola Elegy (1979?)

Sketches and Notes (1979)

Box 18

Vocal and Choral

The Dream Lady (1958)

Full Score (Manuscript, onion sheets)

Full Score (Early Version – pencil score)

Full Score (Photocopy – 2 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Parts for Instruments [Flute, Alto saxophone, bassoon, violas, cello] (Manuscript drafts and revisions)

A Letter of Condolence (1982)

Full Score (Manuscript and 4 copies)

Menage for Soprano, Trumpet and Violin (1974, revised 1978)

Full Score (Bound – 3 copies with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Bound – 1 copy signed by Hibbard)

Full Score (Printed Version – Master, with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Printed Version – 3 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Printed Version – Photocopy with handwritten notations)

Box 19

Reflexa for Soprano and Five Players (1970)

Full Score (Bound – 2 copies)

Full Score (Bound – 2 copies from Composers Facsimile Edition, 1 with handwritten notations)

Parts for Instruments [Flute, Trombone, Cello, Harp, Vibraphone/Marimba] (Onion sheets)

Parts for Instruments [Flute, Trombone, Cello, Harp, Vibraphone/Marimba] (2 copies of each, 1 of each with handwritten notations)

Partial Score (Onion sheets)

Notes

Super Flumina Babylonis (Motet) (1967)

Full Score (Onion sheets)

Full Score (Bound – 4 copies, 1 with handwritten notations)

Full Score (Bound – Piano Reduction)

Partial Score (Onion sheets)

Parts for Strings (2 copies of each, onion sheets)

Parts for Strings (2 copies of each)

Three Whitman Miniatures (1983)

Full Score (Manuscript)

Full Score (Photocopy – 2 copies)

Full Score (Photocopy of 1st Proof)

Full Score (Bound – 2 copies)

Full Score (Printed Copy – 5 copies)

Box 20

Film Scores

Girl on a Landscape (1966)

Manuscript Notes

Full Score (Master, onion sheets)

Full Score (Photocopy – 3 copies, 2 with handwritten notations)

Partial Score [Percussion Part Missing] (Photocopy with handwritten notations)

Portraits for Eternity (1963, produced by Boston Museum of Fine Arts)

Manuscript Notes

Full Score (Onion sheets)

Full Score (Conducting Score with handwritten notations)

Full Score (3 copies, 2 with handwritten notations)

Other Works

Air and Counterpoint (1958)

Full Score (?) (Manuscript)

Canon super "Lauda Sion" (1958)

Full Score (?) (Manuscript)

Liberty and Fireworks Spires [Poem Cycle by Ronald Johnson, dedicated to/set to music by Hibbard] (n.d.)

Poem Texts and Music (1 incomplete printing copy, 1 photocopy)

Sketches and Notes

Lincoln/Lincoln [Uncompleted Opera] (1984)

Libretto (Photocopy, revised 2nd draft)

 

Series II: Personal Papers and Other Materials

Box 1

Applications and Employment, 1971 - 1988, n.d.

Articles, 1965 - 1988, n.d.

Articles by Hibbard, 1966 - 1969, 1975

Awards: Applications and Correspondence - Guggenheim Foundation, 1973 - 1974

Awards: Applications and Correspondence - Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation Fund for Music, 1981

Awards: Applications and Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1964, 1976, 1983, 1988

Awards: Applications and Correspondence - Old Gold Summer Fellowship, 1968 - 1969, 1974 - 1975

Awards: Applications and Correspondence - UI Development Assignment Award, 1978 - 1980, 1985

Awards: Applications and Correspondence - UI Senior Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, 1982 - 1983 (Hibbard's Lincoln/Lincoln Opera)

Center for New Music Descriptive Press Release, 1985

Class Materials: "Analysis of Music Literature, 1600-1750", n.d.

Class Materials: "Analysis of Music Literature, 1750-1825", n.d.

Class Materials: "Analysis of Music Literature, 1825-1900", n.d.

Class Materials: "Analysis of Music Literature, 1890-198-", n.d.

Class Materials: "Contrapuntal Forms", n.d.

Class Materials: Miscellaneous Notes and Materials, n.d.

Class Materials: Notes on Various Composers, n.d.

Contracts and Agreements, 1972 - 1977, 1981 - 1983

Correspondence: American Composers Alliance, 1972 - 1988

Correspondence: Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), 1972 - 1988

Correspondence: General, 1967 - 1974

Correspondence: General, 1975 - 1980 (Includes letter from composer Milton Babbitt, 3/3/1975)

Correspondence: General, 1981 - 1983

Correspondence: Riley, Dennis, 1971 - 1982, n.d.

Correspondence: Schick, Steve, 1981 - 1987

Notes [Handwritten]: 2,3,4,6,12 Succession, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: 3-part Cross Rhythms [7:4:3, 12:21:28, 9:12:16], 1985

Notes [Handwritten]: 7:5 Accelerando and Agitato for Violin/Viola, 1987 - 1988, n.d.

Notes [Handwritten]: Assorted Notes, 1980, 1985 - 1986, n.d.

Notes [Handwritten]: Beehives, 1986 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Beginning and Zephyrs, 1987

Notes [Handwritten]: Cello Material (with some violin), 1987

Notes [Handwritten]: Charts and Matrices, 1980?

Notes [Handwritten]: "Dead" Material, 1977 - 1978

Notes [Handwritten]: Diagonals, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Dyad Combinatoriality and Spiral Combos, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Hexachords - Spiral Combination, 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Limbo, 1976

Notes [Handwritten]: M7/M5, 1978 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Major 3rd - Derived Set, 1987 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Mod 5, 1978 - 1979

Notes [Handwritten]: Mod 5 - Hex, 1977 - 1978

Notes [Handwritten]: Mod 5 - Sets, 1977?

Notes [Handwritten]: Mod 5 and 7, 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Mod 7 - Hex, 1978

Notes [Handwritten]: Mod 12 - Sets, 1978 - 1979

Notes [Handwritten]: Modular Combos, 1977 - 1978

Notes [Handwritten]: Motto Chords, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: More Work with 7.5 Set (song, violin solo, etc), 1978, n.d.

Notes [Handwritten]: Notes made in Darmstadt, 1964?

Notes [Handwritten]: "Old" Material, 1986 - 1989

Notes [Handwritten]: Percussion Concerto, n.d.

Box 2

Notes [Handwritten]: Perfect 4th Derived Set, 1986 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Phrases, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Primary Intervals, 1986 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Rhythm, 1979 - 1980, 1985, 1987 - 1988, n.d (3 folders)

Notes [Handwritten]: Semitone - Derived Set, 1987 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Set Forms, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Sketches (I), 1987 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Sostenuto Octatonics, 1987 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Tetrachords - Spiral Combination, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: "Thoughts for My Next Piece [Contrasts], n.d.

Notes [Handwritten]: Trichord Combinatoriality, 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Trichords - Spiral Combination, 1979 - 1980

Notes [Handwritten]: Unidentified Piece 1, 1985 - 1986

Box 3

Notes [Handwritten]: Unidentified Piece 2, 1985 - 1986

Notes [Handwritten]: Violin/Cello Duets, 1987 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Violin Lines, 1986 - 1988

Notes [Handwritten]: Violin Manual, 1982, n.d.

Notes [Handwritten]: Whole Tone - Derived Set, 1987 - 1988

Personal: Biographical Information and Lists of Works, 1987, n.d.

Personal: Financial Information, 1971 - 1972, 1974 - 1975

Personal: Last Will and Testament, 1988

Personal: Power of Attorney, 1983

Programs: 1960, 1965 - 1968

Programs: 1972 - 1976, 1978 - 1979

Programs: 1980 - 1983

Programs: 1984 - 1987

Programs: 1988, n.d.

Reviews: 1965 - 1987, n.d.

Works of Other Composers: Boulez, Pierre, Improvisation Sur Mallarme

Works of Other Composers: Brahms, Johannes, Third Symphony

Works of Other Composers: Webern, Anton, various works

Box 4: Oversized Materials

Folder 1

Classwork: 16th Century Counterpoint, 1957 - 1958, n.d.

Classwork: Fuga a 4 Soggetti in Contrapunto al rovescio, rectus et inversus (Hibbard), 1963

Miscellaneous Notes and Materials: 12-tone Writings of Milton Babbitt, Donald Martino, and Allan Forte, n.d.

Notes [Handwritten]: Revisions A and B, Unknown Piece, n.d.

Folder 2

Lingua Press Collection Catalogue #2 (November 1977): Contains advertisement for Hibbard's Menage for Soprano, Trumpet and Violin

 

Series III: Audio Recordings

Box 1

Orchestra/Large Ensemble

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1977)

Debut Performance of Piece by UI Symphony Orchestra (with Hibbard on viola) [March 8, 1978]: 7 inch reel

Consorts for Winds, Brass and Percussion (1984)

Performance by University of Iowa Symphony Band [February 18, 1985]: 7 inch reel

Rehearsal of piece, at Voxman Hall, UI [February 20, 1985]: 7 inch reel

Four Pieces for Chamber Ensemble (1962)

Recording (2 versions) [n.d.]: 5 inch reel

Sinfonia on Expanding Matrices (1983)

Rehearsal Performance [n.d.] and Performance of Piece at Hancher Auditorium, UI [February 8, 1984]: 7 inch reel

Stabiles for Thirteen Instruments (1968)

Performance [October 10, 1970]: 7 inch reel

Chamber/Small Ensemble

Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet and Harp (1973)

Rehearsal of piece [Fall 1973]: Edited master, 7 inch reel

Rehearsal of piece [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

1/4 track stereo dub of edited master [1973?]: 7 inch reel

Dolby-A dub of edited master [1973?]: 7 inch reel

1/2 track non-Dolby Stereo dub of edited master [1973?]: 7 inch reel

Dub of Recording Session Takes [1973?]: 7 inch reel

Fantasy for Organ, Trumpet, Trombone and Percussion (1965)

First Performance of Piece [1965?], together with WCRB interview at intermission: 7 inch reel

Gestures for Flute, Double Bass, Marimba and Percussion (1963, revised 1969)

First Performance of Piece, at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music - conducted by Hibbard [June 14, 1963]: 5 inch reel (2 copies)

Performance of Piece at Composers Forum, Tanglewood Music Festival [July 15, 1965]: 7 inch reel

Recording Session [n.d.]: 5 inch reel

One Round…And Another One (1979)

Recording of Tracks 1-90 [n.d.]: 7 inch reel (2 reels)

P/M Variations for 2 Double Basses (1975, revised 1982)

Recording Session [May 12, 1975]: 7 inch reel, with notes included

Recording Session - dub from Dolby Master Tape [May 1975]: 7 inch reel

Recording Session at University of Iowa [n.d.]: 5 inch reel

Portraits for Flute and Piano (1964)

Performance of Piece at Northwestern University [May 15, 1965]: 5 inch reel (3 reels)

Performance of Piece at Northwestern University [May 15, 1965]: 7 inch reel

Sonata for Violin/Viola and Piano (1956)

Performance of Piece at Brookline Library Music Association Music Workshop for New Compositions, Brookline, MA (with Hibbard on violin) [January 15, 1958]: 7 inch reel

Recording (with Hibbard on viola) [April 25, 1958]: 7 inch reel

Performance of Piece (with Hibbard on violin) [April 26, 1958]: 5 inch reel

String Quartet (1971)

Recording [n.d.]: 5 inch reel

Dub of Unedited Master Takes [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

Dolby recording [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

Non-Dolby dub from Dolby Master [December 5, 1972]: 7 inch reel

"Poor Copy" from Edited Master [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

String Trio (1964)

Performance of Piece at Center for New Music concert, St. Louis, MO (with Hibbard on viola) [April 1967]: 5 inch reel

Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Guitar (1959)

Performance of Piece in Boston, MA (with Hibbard on violin) [November 30, 1960]: 5 inch reel (2 reels)

Performance of Piece at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music (with Hibbard on violin) [January 31, 1963]: 5 inch reel

Box 2

Solo Instrument

Parson’s Piece for Solo Percussion (1968, revised 1974)

Master Recording at 15 IPS (Damaged) [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

Recording at 7 1/2 IPS (Part I, 2 takes) [n.d.]: 5 inch reel

Performance of Piece at Center for New Music, UI [October 20, 1979]: 7 inch reel

Performance of Piece at Center for New Music, UI [October 29, 1979]: 7 inch reel

Recording, in 2 parts [n.d.]: 10 inch reel

Schickstuck for Vibraphone (1981)

Performance of Piece at ASUC National Conference, Northwestern University [April 9, 1987]: 7 inch reel

Performance of Piece at ASUC National Conference, Northwestern University [April 9, 1987], Dub from Master: 7 inch reel

Variations for Violoncello Solo (1969)

Recording of edited version followed by Master recording [March 3, 1970]: 7 inch reel

Vocal and Choral

The Dream Lady (1958)

Performance of Piece at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music (with Hibbard conducting) [May 15, 1963]: 5 inch reel (2 reels)

Menage for Soprano, Trumpet and Violin (1974, revised 1978)

Debut Performance of Piece - at Center for New Music, UI? [October 27, 1974]: 7 inch reel (4 reels)

Recordings [n.d.]: 7 inch reel (2 reels)

Performance of Piece - at Center for New Music, UI? (with Hibbard on violin) [February 1978]: 5 inch reel

Reflexa for Soprano and Five Players (1970)

Recording of Rehearsal [n.d.]: 5 inch reel

Other

In Memoriam William Hibbard (1939-1989) (Compact Disc, 1991)

Multiple Hibbard Pieces on Single Reels

The Dream Lady/Gestures for Flute, Double Bass, Marimba and Percussion

Performance of The Dream Lady at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music [May 15, 1963]/Debut Performance of Gestures at Jordan Hall [June 14, 1963]: 7 inch reel

Stabiles for Thirteen Instruments/Gestures for Flute, Double Bass, Marimba and Percussion/Variations for Violoncello Solo/Portraits for Flute and Piano

Recordings [Rehearsal of Stabiles] at North Recital Hall (UI?) [March 8, 1970]: 7 inch reel

Parson’s Piece for Solo Percussion/Stabiles for Thirteen Instruments

Recording at North Recital Hall (UI?) [March 8, 1970]: 7 inch reel

String Quartet/Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet and Harp

Performance of String Quartet by UI Stradivari Quartet [n.d.]/Recording of Rehearsal of Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet and Harp at Center for New Music [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

Dub of Master Tape - Performance of String Quartet by UI Stradivari Quartet [n.d.]/Recording of Rehearsal of Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet and Harp at Center for New Music [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

Expanding Matrices: Four Mirror Etudes in First Position for Viola Solo/A Euphonious Duet on Expanding Matrices/Sinfonia on Expanding Matrices

Performance by Iowa City Community String Orchestra (with Hibbard on violin) [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

Hibbard Pieces and Other Works on Single Reels

1. Recording of ASUC Conference, St. Louis, MO [April 1967]: Includes Hibbard's String Trio, Richard Rondheim's Easter Wings, Robert Shallenberg's Herbsttag, Patrick Purswell's It Grew and Grew, and Karl Heinz Stockhausen's Refrain - 7 inch reel

2. Performance at University of Illinois, Urbana, IL [Summer 1967]: Includes Hibbard's Thesis III (rehearsal and performance), and Edwin Harkins' Signs (with Hibbard as conductor) - 7 inch reel

3. Recording of Rehearsal at Center for New Music (UI) [October 10, 1970]: Includes Hibbard's Stabiles [end missing]  and Bruce MacCombie's Out Of The Sighs [fragment] - 7 inch reel

4. Performance by Iowa City Community String Orchestra [n.d.]: Includes Hibbard's Expanding Matrices: Four Mirror Etudes in First Position for Viola Solo/A Euphonious Duet on Expanding Matrices/Sinfonia on Expanding Matrices (with Hibbard on violin), and Henry Purcell's Suite from King Arthur, and Claude Debussy's Sacred and Profane Dances (with Hibbard as conductor) - 7 inch reel

5. Recording [n.d.]: Includes Hibbard's Parson's Piece, and Jon Williams' Chega de Saudade - 7 inch reel

6. Copy from Dolby Recording [n.d.]: Includes Hibbard's Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet and Harp, Patrick Purswell's It Grew and Grew, and Peter Tod Lewis' Gestes - 7 inch reel

7. Recording of Composition Seminar (UI?) [October 18, 1979]: Includes Hibbard's One Round...And Another One, and Charles Wuorinen piece and speech - 7 inch reel

Performances by Hibbard of Other Composers' Works

1. Recording of Arnold Schoenberg's Phantasy for Violin and Piano (with Hibbard on violin) [August 24, 1960] - 5 inch reel

2. Recording of Hibbard's New England Conservatory of Music graduation violin recital [March 15, 1961]: Includes Georg Friederich Handel's Sonata in D Major, Charles Ives' Sonata #2, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata in A Major, and Arnold Schoenberg's Phantasy for Violin and Piano- 7 inch reel (3 reels)

3. Performance of Arnold Scheoenberg's String Trio, op. 45, at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music (with Hibbard on viola) [January 31, 1963] - 7 inch reel

4. Performance of 'Music in 20th Century America' at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory (with Hibbard on viola for Gaburo's piece) [January 31, 1963]: Includes Arnold Schoenberg's Sechs Klavierstucke, op 19, and Kenneth Gaburo's Line Studies - 7 inch reel

5. Performance of 'Contemporary Music for Violin, Clarinet and Piano' (with Hibbard on violin) [March 27, 1963]: Includes Donald Martino's Trio, and Bela Bartok's Contrasts - 7 inch reel

6. Performance of 'Contemporary Music for Violin, Clarinet and Piano' (with Hibbard on violin) [March 27, 1963]: Includes Igor Stravinsky's Historic Suite, and Alban Berg's Adagio - 2nd Movement of the Chamber Concert - 7 inch reel

7. Recording of D. Martin Jenni's Musica dell'Estate (with Hibbard on viola) [n.d.]: 2 takes - 7 inch reel

Box 3

Performances by Hibbard of Other Composers' Works (Continued)

8. Recording of 'Hibbard at Holy 3' [n.d.] - 7 inch reel (2 reels)

9. Recording of Orchestra (Iowa City Community String Orchestra?) Rehearsal and Performance [February 7, 1984] - 10 inch reel

10. Performance by University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra (with Hibbard conducting) [July 2, 1980]: Includes Hector Berlioz' Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Claude Debussy's Petite Suite, and Igor Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments - 7 inch reel

Other Musical Works

1. Performance of Milton Babbitt's Composition for Four Instruments at University of Iowa [May 5, 1966]: 5 inch reel

2. Performance of Milton Babbitt's Composition for Nine Instruments and Composition for 12 Instruments [May 5, 1966]: 7 inch reel

3. Recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, for Violin, Viola and Orchestra [February 16, 1974]: 7 inch reel

4. Performance of Gerald C. Chenoweth's Music for Cello and Piano, at Clapp Recital Hall, UI [April 19, 1974]: 5 inch reel

5. Performance of P.M. Davies' Hymnos at Amherst College by Asparagus Valley Contemporary Music Consort [November 1977]/Performance of P.M. Davies' Hymnos at University of Massachusetts by Group for New Music Consort [December 1977]/Performance of Trumpets [no composer given] at ASUC Regional Conference [November 1977] : 7 inch reel

6. Performance of Frank Ballufi at Junior Recital, Oberlin Conservatory of Music [April 1, 1981]: 7 inch reel

7. Performance of Charles Wuorinen's Percussion Duo and Janissary Music, by Steven Schick, University of Iowa [May 21, 1981]: 7 inch reel

8. Recording of Luciano Berio's Circles [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

9. Performance of Kenneth Gaburo's Antiphony IV (Poised)[n.d.]: 7 inch reel (2 reels)

10. Recording of Gunther Schuller's Woodwind Quintet and Dorian Quintet [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

11. Performance of Paul Martin Zonn's String Quartet #4, by the Allerton Quartet [n.d.]/Zonn's Voyage of Columbus by University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

12. Copy from Dolby Master Recording of works from D. Martin Jenni and Salvatore Martriano [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

13. Recording of works from Salvatore Martriano, D. Martin Jenni, and Dennis Riley [n.d.]: 7 inch reel

14. Recording of vocalization experiments from Janet Steele (with letter from Steele to Hibbard) [n.d.]: 5 inch reel